Xiaomi is ramping up its focus on saving lives through its array of functionalities in its smartphones and other devices. The Chinese tech powerhouse continues to work with disaster prevention and mitigation institutions in developing early warning systems that could help millions of Indonesians respond adequately to earthquake threats. Xiaomi has therefore announced the launch of its Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) feature for its Indonesia-based customers. The EEW feature is a trial version for now.

The EEW feature, when switched on, will provide useful notifications on seismic activity that could result in earthquakes in Indonesia. The seismic intensity and the location of the earthquake immediately it occurs will help Xiaomi smartphone users in Indonesia make an informed decision to move away and avoid such areas. According to Xiaomi, the EEW gives a brief warning time prior to the arrival of secondary waves. Its calculations are based on electric waves which are much faster than secondary waves. The EEW feature in the Xiaomi smartphone interfaces with the early warning system of the earthquake monitoring institution. Synchronized information from the earthquake monitoring agency is then fed to enabled Xiaomi smartphones as notifications. Priority is given to areas where the earthquake is occurring for greater effectiveness.

The notifications will display important information about the earthquake including the expected time of arrival and its magnitude. The phone will ring a warning tone when the early warning occurs and Xiaomi says users must familiarize themselves with this tone. Xiaomi is also expecting feedback from users who opt into the EEW feature in their compatible Xiaomi smartphones in Indonesia.

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Xiaomi has just announced that its MIUI has successfully announced its users in China regarding 35 earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 and higher. The company’s software has even offered support to 25 provinces in the country.

The consumer electronics maker shared this achievement on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website, along with an image poster. For those unaware, various smartphones nowadays feature an early warning system that is built into the device to offer push notifications regarding upcoming natural disasters. In the announcement, the company also stated that it has reached a total number of 8,640,477 devices including smartphones and TVs with its early warning systems.

The news shared by the Chinese tech giant arrives on the day of the 2021 National Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Day. These early warnings regarding earthquakes were sent to 25 provinces all across the nation but has yet to achieve a full coverage. Notably, the system from the compay has been active for more than 500 days and has so far detected 35 earthquakes.

Although, company officials have also announced that MIUI will also work with Disaster Mitigation Research Institute to optimize its early warning feature to improve it even further. These natural disaster warnings from the company will also be improved in cooperation with the National Early Warning Release Center, National Emergency Broadcasting, and China Earthquake Networks as well. So hopefully, the improvement in the future would help prevent any major casualities in cases of natural disasters in the future.

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Vivo, which planned to launch its new JoviOS custom user interface for the company’s smartphones dropped the plan and instead launched a new version of its existing FunTouch custom UI, dubbed FunTouch OS 10.

Now, Xiao Zhuge, Project Manager for the Vivo FunTouch OS has revealed that the team is currently working on a new weather-related feature for the custom operating system — Earthquake Warning.

He has also revealed that the feature, which is currently under development, will undergo internal testing at the company in a couple of weeks. This hints that the official rollout of the said feature isn’t very far away and could be rolled out soon if the internal testing gets passed successfully. However, no specific date for the rollout of this ‘Earthquake Warning’ feature has been revealed yet.

Further, he added that the FunTouch OS 10 introduces positioning areas which can provide forecast every minute for the next two hours and with the “distant love” feature, it can display the time and weather of two different places at the same time.

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This new feature from Vivo is similar to the Earthquake Warning feature that Xiaomi rolled out with its latest MIUI 11 custom user interface. Xiaomi had said that the smartphones running MIUI 11 and even Mi TVs could be notified “seconds to tens of seconds” before the earthquake hits the place.

The idea is to give users a few seconds of head-start in order to better protect themselves before the actual earthquake. Also, the alert could also provide information about the nearest emergency shelter, emergency contact details, medical contacts, and the rescue information to help in a critical situation.

The latest FunTouch OS 10 from Vivo comes with a minimal user interface and is based on the concept of “Original Design”. Apart from offering minimal UI, the company has also added new desktop icons. There’s a new off-screen clock and Vivo has added new live wallpapers too. It also brings changes to Jovi virtual assistant which can now provide users with a variety of thoughtful services, help users manage their smart devices, and more.

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Back in September, we reported that Xiaomi was going to add ‘Earthquake Warning’ alerts in its upcoming MIUI 11 OS. Looks like the company is finally starting to make that happen. At this week’s developer’s conference held in Beijing, China, Xiaomi confirmed that it has started to roll out the ‘Earthquake warning’ feature to select users in Sichuan, China using MIUI OS. The company plans to roll it out on a wider scale throughout China soon.

Xiaomi says that smartphones running MIUI 11 and even Mi TVs could be notified “seconds to tens of seconds” before the earthquake hits the place. The idea is to give users a few seconds of a headstart in order to better protect themselves before the actual earthquake. Also, the alert could also provide information about the nearest emergency shelter, emergency contact details, medical contacts, and the rescue information to help in a critical situation.

Xiaomi’s Earthquake Warning alert was first trialed back in September and has been developed in partnership with the Chengdu based Institue of Care-life. As of now, it looks like the feature would be limited to China. But eventually, Xiaomi could tie-up with more organizations and alert its millions of smartphones running MIUI internationally as well.

You can read more about the features of MIUI 11 from here.

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